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Robert Crowther Abbott (1869–1927) was the inaugural Bishop of Sherborne.Robert Crowther Abbott was born into a clerical family: his father was the Rev. A. R. Abbott sometime Vicar of Gorleston. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College Cambridge. After 15 years as an assistant master (and latterly Chaplain) at his old school he was appointed Principal of Salisbury Theological College in 1907.